National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2109
Original release date:05/07/2008
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
field.c in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0', which triggers an infinite loop.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [mad-dev] 20080112 Initite loop bug in libid3tag-0.15.0b
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:103
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-3757
External Source: XF
Name: libid3tag-field-dos(42271)
External Source: BID
Name: 29210
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200805-15
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30182
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30173